• 3 weeks ago
Dale Jr. talks through the highs and lows of Justin Allgaier's championship journey and what it means to win at Phoenix Raceway.
Transcript
00:00Zach Czerniola, NASCAR.com. Dale, you've been on this championship stage a couple of times for JRM. How is tonight different?
00:08Well, obviously because of Justin's championship
00:13We've had so many drivers come through the program and and it's been a pleasure man working with so many drivers and
00:21Told Sam Mayer on pit road tonight. I said man
00:24You're gonna be so fun to race against and wherever you go and whatever happens to you
00:28We're gonna have we're gonna be linked to you
00:30We're gonna be a part of your history and your story same thing with Byron Chase Elliott all those guys
00:36you know, and so that's a really fun thing to be a
00:39You know, that's why I think it's the motivation for why we love being in the Xfinity series and why we feel like we serve
00:46A great purpose in the sport and industry and we're an asset to it
00:50but we also have these veterans like Justin that he's made his home with us and he's given us so much and
00:58Never said no never rolled his eyes. Never shrugged his shoulders. Not once and
01:04Man, we have we need a lot right? We ask a lot
01:08from him and our part our drivers and so
01:12man, he said he does everything with a smile and
01:16and so I just wanted this really really badly for him, so it's a
01:21you know that certainly makes it different unique and
01:24Yet the greatest thing I think about all of this is the relationships that you make with drivers mechanics crew chiefs and
01:31Man, what a relationship that I have a friendship. I have with him
01:35I remember standing out on pit road probably three years ago
01:37both of us nearly crying because we came really close and
01:41Didn't win and and we you know, we said man, we're never gonna do that again
01:46we're gonna you know, we're gonna we're gonna find our way to the top one day and
01:50God man, it was uh, there's a lot of obstacles tonight, but it worked out

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